British Romanticism

Description: A study of literature as a reflection of social and cultural change occurring in the revolutionary age (1780s to 1830s ). Attention to how notions of 'nature,' 'genius,' and the 'imagination' created political changes and altered conceptions of how history was understood. Works by authors such as Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Godwin, Hays, Wollstonecraft, Scott, Byron, Austen, PB Shelley, M Shelley, and Keats.